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RULES 

OF THE 

BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 



CHAPTER I. 

Orgainzation of the Board. 
Section 1. The Mayor of the city, with the title of Presiding om- 

-i^ ■ 1 /.IT-. 1 /■■ -I 1 1 /-^ • / 1 n 1 cer of the Board. 

President oi the Jioard or bchool Committee, shall, when 
present, preside at all meetings of the Board ;• in his 
absence, a President jiro teiwpore shall be chosen by 
ballot. 

Sect. 2. At the meeting for organization each year, secretary and 
the Board shall elect a Secretary by ballot, and fix his mutees." 
salary fur the ensuing year; and the President shall 
appoint, subject to the approval of the Board, Standing 
Committees of five members each : On Elections ; — 
On Rules and Regulations ; — On Accounts ; — On 
School-houses; — On Salaries; — On Text-books; — 
On Music; — On Vocal and Physical Culture; — On 
Printing; — and Committees of thirteen members each: 
— On the Latin School, the English High School, and 
the Girls' High and Normal School ; each ward to 
be represented. 

Sect. '5>. The city shall be divided into Districts, Districts- 
comprising a Grammar School and a certain number 
of Primary Schools, each Disti-ic!" taking its name from 



U' 



District Com- 
mittees. 



Chairmen of 
Committees. 



Meetings. 



Quorum. 



Vacancies In 
the Board. 



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[Chap. I. 



the Grammar School. The President shall appoint, at 
the meeting of the Board for organization each year, 
subject to its approval, a Standing Committee on each 
District, the number of which shall be in proportion to 
the number of pupils in the District. 

Sect. 4. The member first named on any commit- 
tee, shall be the chairman thereof: except that the 
Committee on the Latin School, on the English High 
School, on the Girls' Eligh and Normal School, and each 
District Committee shall elect its own chairman. 

Sect. 5. The regular meetings of the Board shall 
be held on the evening of the second Tuesday of each 
month except January and August; those occurring in 
December, March, June and September, shall be quar- 
terly meetings, and special meetings may be called 
whenever they are necessary. 

Sect. 6. A majority of the Board shall constitute a 
quorum; but a less number may vote to send for absent 
members, to call the roll and record the names of the 
absentees, and to adjourn. 

Sect. 7. Whenever a vacancy occurs in this Board, 
a Committee shall be appointed, consisting of three 
members from the ward in which the vacancy exists, 
and two at lai'ge, who sliall consult with the Alderman 
of said ward, or with the Cliairman of the Board of 
Aldermen, in case the ward is not represented in that 
branch, and report to this Board, on or before the day 
of election, the name of a suitable candidate to fill said 
vacancy. 



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Chap. II.] EULES. 



CH A '■ TER II. 

Powers and Duties of the President. 

Section 1. The President shall call the Board to opening of 
order at the hour appointed for meeiing, and cause the ™®®**'^s^- 
records of the last meeting to be read as soon as a quo- 
runa is present. Business shall proceed in the following 
order, unless the Board otherwise direct : 

1. Papers from the City Council. • order of 

business. 

2. Unfinished business of preceding meetings. 

3. Nomination and Confirmation of Teachers in the 

order of the districts. 

4. Reports of Committees. 

5. Motions, Orders^, Resolutions, Petitions, etc. 

Sect. 2. The President shall preserve order in the duties of the 
meetings; and he shall decide all questions of order, 
subject to an appeal to the Board by any member, 
which appeal shall be decided forthwith; he may speak 
on points of order in preference to other members. 

Sect. 3. The President shall name the member en- same. 
titled to the floor when two or more claim it. 

Sect. 4. The President shall state to the Board, in same, 
their order, all motions when seconded, and they shall 
be acted upon, unless withdrawn by the mover previous 
to an amendment ; he shall declare the result of each 
vote, and in case of doubt shall without debate require 
the members to stand and be counted. 

Sect. 5. The President shall appoint the chairman chairman of 
of the Committee of the Whole, and may at any time thewhoie. 



RULES. 



[Chap. II. 



President can 
debate a qucs 
tion. 



Yeas and nays. 



Order of 
Motions. 



Motion to 
adjourn. 



Motions not 
debatable. 



Previous ques- 
tion. 



Call of special 
meetings. 



Appointment of 
coramitteos. 



call a member to the cliair, but not for more than one 
meeting. He may take part in debate, but must leave 
the chair and not resume it until the question is decided. 
On questions of order he may state facts and give his 
opinion without leaving his place. 

Sect. 6, The President shall take th^jyeas and nays 
on any question, whenever one-fifth of the members 
present require it. 

Sect. 7. The President shall, when motions are 
made, naming sums or fixing times, put first to vote the 
largest sum, or the longest time. When a question is 
under debate, he shall receive no motion but to adjourn, 
to lay on the table, for the previous question, to postpone 
to a day certain, to commit, to amend, or to postpone 
indefinitely, which motions sliull have precedence in the 
aljove order. 

Sect. 8. The President shall consider a motion to 
adjourn always in order, except when a member has the 
floor, or a question has been put and not decided ; 
motions to adjourn, to lay upon the table, to take from 
the table, and for the previous question, shall be decided 
without debate. Any member who moves to adjourn to 
a day certain, shall assign his reasons therefor. 

Sect. 9. The President shall put the previous ques- 
tion in this form : " Shall the main question be now 
put? " And its adoption shall end all debate, and bring 
the Board to a vote upon pending amendments if there 
are any; and then upon the main question. 

Sect. 10. The President may, and at the written 
request of five members, shall call special meetings of 
the Board ; but not on less than twenty-four hours' notice. 

Sect. 11. Committees shall be nominated by the 
President, unless otherwise ordered by the Board. 



Chap. III.] EULES. 



CHAPTER III. 

Rights and Duties of Members. 

Section 1. A member desiring to present any mat- Duties of mem- 
bers in debate. 
ter for the consideration of the Board or to speak upon 

any question, shall rise and address the President, and 

when recognized by him shall be at liberty to proceed ; 

he shall avoid personality, and when referring to any 

member shall designate him by the ward he represents, 

or in some other appropriate and respectful manner. 

Sect. 2. No member while speaking shall be inter- Caii to order, 
rupted by another, except by a call to order, or to cor- 
rect a mistake; if called to order he shall immediately 
sit down, unless permitted to explain ; and the Board, 
if appealed to, shall decide the case, without debate. 

Sect. 3. If the Board decide that a member has violation of 

Rules. 

violated any of its Rules, he shall not be allowed to 
speak unless by way of excuse for the same, until he 
has apologized therefor. 

Sect. 4. No member shall speak on a question more Rules of debate. 
than once until all others have had an opportunity, nor 
more than twice without permission from the Board. 

Sect. 5. Motions shall be submitted in writing, if Motions. 
the President or any member of the Board requests it. 

Sect. 6. The action of the Board on any question Motions to 

reconsider. 

may be reconsidered at the same meeting by a majority 
of the members present; but at a subsequent meeting, 
a majority of the whole Board shall be required. A 
motion to reconsider must be made by a member voting 
with the majority, and only one motion for that purpose 
shall be in order. 
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[Chap. IV. 



Members to 
vote. 



Division of a 
question. 

Reading of a 
paper, when 
called for. 



Suspension of 
Rules. 



Sect. 7. Every member present shall vote unless 
excused by the Board. 

Sect. 8. Motions and reports may be committed 
and recommitted at the pleasure of the Board. 

Sect. 9. Any member may require the division of a 
(juestion when it is susceptible of it. 

Sect. 10. If objection is made to the reading of 
any paper, it shall be decided by vote of the Board. 

Sect. 11. No Rule of the Board or Regulation of 
the Schools shall be suspended except by the vote of 
three-fourths of the members present, unless the motion 
therefor has lain on the table for at least one week. 



CHAPTER I\ 



Duties of Standing Committees. 



Committees on 
Elections. 



Committee on 
Rules and Reg- 
ulations. 



Section 1. The Committee on Elections shall, im- 
mediately after the appointment of the Standing Com- 
mittees, at the meeting for organization, receive the 
certificates of election of the members, examine them, 
and report the result without unnecessary delay; and 
whenever any person is elected to fill a vacancy in the 
Board, this Committee shall examine his certificate of 
election, and report as above provided. All cases of 
contested elections shall be heard and reported upon 
by this Committee. 

Sect. 2. The Committee on Rules and Regulations 
shall take into careful consideration every proposition 
to repeal or to amend any Rule or Regulation which is 



Chap. IV.] RULES. 11 

referred to them by the Board, and shall report in writ- 
ings stating their reasons for or against the proposed 

1. ,. 1 1 -J.' 1 11 1 t 1 All amendments 

alteration; and no such proposition shall be acted ^^' ^^ j,gjgj.j.g^ 
upon by the Board until after it has been referred *« t^iem. 
to this or some other Committee and reported upon. 

Sect. 3. The Committee on Accounts shall conside. committee on 

Accounts. 

and report upon every proposition requiring the expen- 
diture of money, except it be for salaries, before it is 
finally acted upon by the Board. They shall have the 
exclusive authority to purchase and furnish all station- 
ery, blanks, record-books and diplomas, all authorized 
books of I'eference, globes, maps, charts, and all other 
articles or conveniences required by the Board, its 
officers, or the Public Schools. They shall annually 
advertise for proposals, and contract with responsible 
parties, to furnish the text-books necessary to carry out 
the provisions of the General Statutes, Chap. 38, Sect. 29 
and 30, and see that they are fully complied with. They 
shall have the custody and management of all property 
belonging to the city, which is held by this Board, and 
not otherwise provided for. They shall audit all pay-rolls 
of salaries, and bills of expenditure authorized by the 
Board, and each month make requisition on the City 
Auditor for the payment of such as they have approved. 
They shall have authority to employ a clerk, styled 
Auditing Clerk, who shall perform such duties as they 
and the regulations of the Board may require. They 
shall prepare and present to the City Auditor before 
the first day of February annually, an estimate of the 
expenses of the public schools for next financial year. 

Sect. 4. The Committee on School-Houses shall committee on 

• in 1- • f. 1 • • School-houses. 

consider ail applications lor the erection or alteration 
of school-houses and the formation of new Primary 



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[Chap. IV 



Warming and 
Ventilation of 
School-houses. 



Committee on 
Salaries. 



Committee on 
Text-Books. 



Introduction of 
new books. 



Committee on 
Music. 



Schools, and after consultation with the District Com- 
mittee making the application, they shall report to the 
Board in writing before any action shall be taken; they 
shall also have a general supervision over the warming 
and ventilation of the several school-houses. 

Sect. 5. The Committee on Salaries shall consider 
all propositions to change the established salaries of 
teachers, or to pay for extra service in teaching, and 
shall report upon them in writing before they are acted 
upon by the Board. 

Sect. 6. The Committee on Text-Books shall con- 
sider every application to introduce a new text-book 
into the schools, and, if favorably impressed therewith, 
they shall notify the Board, and see that a copy thereof 
is furnished every member for examination, as a condi- 
tion of its being considered by the Board; and said 
Committee shall thoroughly examine such text-book 
within three months of such application, and report to 
the Board in writing. Annually, in the month of May, 
they shall examine the course of studies prescribed for 
the schools, and recommend to the Board at the meeting 
in June such changes in the text-books and such im- 
provements as they may deem expedient. 

Sect. 7. No new text-book shall be adopted except 
on condition that the pupils of the public schools be fur- 
nished at such a reduction from the wholesale price as 
shall be agreed to by the Board ; and the Committee on 
Accounts shall see that this condition is complied with* 
and that the book is introduced only at the commence- 
ment of the school year. 

Sect. 8. The Committee on Music shall exercise a 
general supervision in all the schools over that depart- 
ment of instruction ; they shall appoint and nominate to 



Chap. IV.] RULES. 13 

the Board for confirmation, Teachers of Music in the 
schools; they shall examine the pupils in this branch, 
and shall report to the Board in writing at the meetings 
in March and September. 

Sect. 9. The Committee on Vocal and Physical committee on 
Culture shall have general supervision of that branch of jeai'cQiture. ^ 
instruction in all the schools; they shall appoint and 
nominate to the Board for confirmation an Instructor 
and an Assistant Instructor in this department; they 
shall make a report at the March and September meet- 
ings, stating what instruction has been given by the 
regular instructors, the progress made in the schools, 
and also embodying such, recommendations and sugges- 
tions as they may deem expedient. 

Sect. 10. The Committee on Printing shall submit committee on 

Printing. 

at the quarterly meeting in March a detailed account of 
all expenditures for printing during the year preceding j 
they shall have the supervision of all printing required 
by the Board or the Schools, and no bills for printing 
without the signature of the Chairman of this Commit- 
tee in approval, shall be audited or paid, except such 
as the Committee on Accounts have contracted, under 
the powers vested in them by the Rules of the Board. 

Sect. 11. Whenever a motion, order or resolution, Moverofmotion 
is referred to a Committee, the Chairman thereof shall Committee. ^ 
give the member offering it an opportunity to be heard 
before the Committee. 

Sect. 12. The Standing Committees on the Latin, committees on 
English High, and the Girls' High and Normal Schools, '^ 
shall perform the same duties, observe the same rules, 
and exercise the same rights, so far as they are appli- 
cable to their respective schools, as are hereinafter 
prescribed for District Committees in their supervision 



14 RULES. [Chap. IV. 

of the Grammar Schools. At the regular meetings of 
these Committees,, five members shall constitute a 
quorum. 
Duties of Sect. 13, District Committees shallhave charge of 

District Com- 
mittees, the Grammar and Primai-j Schools of their respective 

Districts, and may arrange the studies and classify the 
pupils in such a manner as they may deein best. They 
shall furnish the Secretary of the Board with a state- 
ment of their organization as soon as completed. Meet- 
ings shall be called on not less than twenty-four hours' 
notice, and the proceedings of the same duly recorded. 
Organization of Sect. 14. The member first named on eacli Dis- 

District Com- 
mittees, trict Committee shall call a meeting for organization 

within ten days after its appointment. After the election 

of a Chairman and Secretary, the committee shall be 

divided into a suitable number of Sub-Committees, to 

each of which shall be assigned a portion of the Primai-y 

careof Primary Schools of tlic District. Sub-Committces shall have 

Schools. 

supervision of the schools allotted to them, shall visit 
ihem monthly, and examine them quarterly, and at 
least one week previous to each quarterly meeting of 
the Board shall report in regard to their standing and 
progress to the chairman of the District Committee. All 
matters of importance shall be referred by Sub-Commit- 
tees, to the District Committee for consideration and action. 
Quarterly ex- Sect. 15. Each DistHct Committee shall, without 

aminations and . . . . . 

reports. gi'^mg prcvious noticc to tcachcrs, visit monthly, and 

examine quarterly, the Grammar School in their District, 
and at each quarterly meeting the Chairman thereof 
shall report to the Board in writing upon the condition 
and r)rogress of all the schools under their charge 
stating any occurrences affecting their standing and 
usefulness, and also the names of all non-residents chil" 



Chap. IV.] RULES. 15 

dren admitted to the schools, and the reasons therefor. 
In case the Chairman shall fail to report, any member 
of the Committee present shall be called upon, and if 
no report is furnished, the Board shall order the delin- 
quent Committee to report at the next meeting. 

Sect. 16. Diplomas of Graduation- signed by the Diplomas. 
President of the Board, the Chairman of the District 
Committee, and the Master of the School, shall be 
awarded to those pupils of the graduating class of each 
Grammar School, who have, in the opinion of the Dis- 
trict Committee, properly completed the prescribed 
course of study, and whose deportment during the year 
has been generally satisfactory. Each District Com- 
mittee shall furnish the Auditing Clerk of the Board 
with the names of the diploma scholars, at least four 
days previous to the annual exhibition, and it shall be 
their duty on that day to present the diplomas to those 
pupils to whom they have been awarded. 

Sect. 17. The Standing Committees of the Latin Frankiin 
and English High Schools shall constitute a joint com- 
mittee, who shall have general control of the expenditure 
of the income of the Franklin Fund, and of all matters 
relating to the Franklin Medals, subject to the provisions 
of the Regulations, and the requirements of Dr. Frank- 
lin's Will. They shall annually divide the medals 
provided by the income of this fund equally between 
the Latin and English High Schools, and their respective 
Standing Committees shall award them to those gradu- 
ates who shall be found most advanced in scholarship, 
and meritorious in deportment. 

Sect. 18, Annually, in the month of May, the Com- canvassing the 
mittees on the Latin School, the English High School, 
the Girls' High and Normal School, and each District 



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[Chap. IV. 



Nomination of 
teachers for re- 
election. 



District Com- 
mittees may 
make tempo- 
rary arrange- 
ments, advise 
instructors and 
settle difficul- 
ties. 



District Com- 
mittees can 
transfer teach- 
ers. 



Annual exami- 
nations. 



Committee shall canvass their list of teachers, and after 
consultation with the master, they shall decide upon those 
whom they will recommend for re-election, and at the 
meeting in June for the election of teachers, they shall 
nominate the persons thus approved. If any Com- 
mittee have decided not to nominate a teacher for 
re-election, they may notify said teacher of their inten- 
tion, if they deem it expedient. 

Sect. 19. District Committees may make any tem- 
porary arrangement not contrary to the Regulations 
which the welfare of the schools or the teachers may 
require ; they shall advise instructors in any emergency, 
and arbitrate in case of any difficulty between them, or 
between instructors and parents, though the parties may 
appeal to the whole Board if they desire to do so. 

Sect. 20. District Committees in their respective 
Districts may make such transfers of teachers, and such 
changes in the location of Primary Schools, as they may 
deem necessary, but every such case shall be mentioned 
in their next quarterly report; no teacher shall be 
transferred from one District to another without the 
approval of the Board. 

Sect. 21. The Committees on the Latin School, the 
English High School, the Girls' High and Normal School, 
and each District Committee, shall, during the month of 
July, make a thorough examination of their respective 
schools, and report at the quarterly meeting in Septem- 
ber the results with any suggestions which they may 
consider valuable, and they shall also give statistics 
in a tabular form on the following points, viz: 1. 
The number of teachers; 2. The changes of teach- 
ers made during the year; 3. Tlie number of diff- 
erent scholars registered; 4. The number of these 



Chap. IV.] EULES. 17 

received from other Public Schools of the city ; 5. The 
number discharged ; 6. The largest number present at 
any one time; 7. The largest average attendance for. 
any one month, and name of month; 8. The average 
attendance for the year; 9. The number and names 
of the diploma scholars, and the recipients of the 
Lawrence prizes ; 10. The number and ages of the can- 
didates offered and admitted at the High Schools, 
from each of the Grammar Schooli. 

Sect. 22. These reports shall be referred to a spe- 
cial committee of the Board appointed at the meeting 
in September, who shall make from them such selec- 
tions, and shall add thereto such suggestions and 
remarks as they may deem expedient. There shall be 
published with the Annual Report, the Reports of the 
Committees on the three High Schools, of the Super- 
intendent of Schools, and of the Committee on Music; 
a list of the diploma scholars and the recipients of the 
Lawrence prizes, the usual statistical tables and the 
organization of the schools ; but no other matter shall 
be included in the volume, except by the order of the 
Board. Reports and other matters for publication shall 
be presented to the Committee on the Annual Report on 
or before the first day of November, who shall report at 
the quarterly meeting in December ; when accepted by 
the Board this report shall be printed, with the accom- 
panying documents, for distribution among the citizens 
before the last day of January following, and in the 
manner pursued in the distribution of the Report of the 
City Auditor; the edition to be limited to twenty-five 
hundred copies. 



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[Chap. V. 



School and 
financial year. 



Annual election 
of teachers. 



Grades of 
teachers and 
salaries. 



CHAPTER Y. 

Ehclion of Instructors of Public Schools, 

Section 1. The school year shall commence on the 
first Monday in September ; the financial year and the 
salaries of the Superintendent and teachers on the first 
day of September. 

Sect. 2. In the month of June, annually, the Board 
shall elect the instructors of the Public Schools, and fix 
their salaries for the ensuing year. The following are 
the various grades of teachers which have been estab- 
lished by the Board, and the salaries which have been 
authorized. 

LATIN AND ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOLS. 



Head Master $3,000 first year, 

Masters 2,400 " " 

Sub-Master 1,800 " " 

Teacher of French in the Latin School 

" " Eng. High School, 

" Drawing " " " 



^,000 subsequently. 
3,000 " 

2,200 " 

500 per annum. 

700 " " 
500 " '* 



girls' high ANT) NORMAL SCHOOL. 

Head Master $3,000 first year, $4,000 subsequently. 

Head Assistant 1,500 per annum. 

Superintendent of Training Department. .. 1,500 

Assistants " " ... 1,000 

Assistants 1,000 

Teacher of Drawing 1,300 

" French 500 

" German 500 

" Music 450 

GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

Masters $2,400 for the first year, $3,000 subsequently. 

Sub-Masters 1,800 " " 2,200 " 

Ushers 1,400 " " 1,600 " 



Chap. V.] RULES. 19 

Masters' Assistants 800 per annum. 

Head Assistants 700 " " 

Assistants $550 for tlie first year, 650 subsequently. 

Instructor of Vocal and Physical Culture.. 3,000 " " 

Ass't " " " " .. 1,800 " " 

Teacher of Music for each school 150 " " 

Teacher of Sewing in Bowditch School. .. 550 " " 
Teachers of Sewing in Hancock and Win- 

throp 450 " " 

Teacher of Sewing in Everett 350 " " 

Teacher of Sewing in Bigelow, Chapman, 

Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln 310 " " 

Teacher of Sewing in Adams, Lyman, Wells, 

Prescott 275 " " 

PRIMARY SCHOOLS. 

Teachers $550 for the first year, $650 subsequently. 

Teacher of Music 2,500 per annum. 

Sect. 3. At the annual meeting for the election of Nomination 
instructors all the teachers in the Public Schools shall teachers. 
be nominated by their respective Standing and District 
Committees : the Head Masters of the Latin, the Eng- 
lish High, and the Girls' High and Normal Schools, and 
the Masters in the Grammar Schools, shall be elected 
b}^ ballot, at least thirty votes being necessary for a 
choice ; the other teachers shall be elected by the con- 
firmation of the Board, and when thus elected all in- 
structors shall hold their offices for the ensuing school 
year, unless sooner removed by vote of the Board. 

Sect. 4. If a vacancy exists in the Head Mastership vacancy in 
of the Latin School, the English High School, or the swja andMM- 
Girls' High and Normal School, the Committees of those *"«^'p«- 
schools shall constitute a committee for the examination 
of candidates ; but if a vacancy exists in the Mastership 
of any of the Grammar Schools, the Examining Com- 
mittee shall be composed of the District Committee of 
the school in which the vacancy exists, and of the mem- 



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[Chap. V. 



Same. 



Examining 

Committee's 

report. 



Examination of 
teacljers. 



bers for the two wai"ds iiumeiically nearest to the ward 
in which said school is situated ; and one-third of the 
niciubcrs of either of these committees shall constitute 
a quorum. The Secretary shall, if the Board so direct, 
give public notice that applications to fill the vacancy 
will be received by him, together with any recommenda- 
tions or otiier evidence of qualification which candidates 
may desire to present. 

Sect. 5. The Examining Committee shall take from 
the Secretary's files all the papers presented, and after 
a personal interview with the applicants, and inquiries 
in regard to their qualifications, they shall, at a meeting 
appointed for the purpose, carefully examine the candi- 
dates in the manner required by law, and with reference 
to the position that is to be filled None but said Com- 
mittee, the members of this Board, the Superintendent 
of Public Schools, and the candidates under examina- 
tion, shall be present. 

Sect. 6. The Examining Committee shall report to 
the Board, the names of all the applicants who have 
been examined by them, together with their recommen- 
dations and qualifications; they shall also designate the 
names of two or more of the candidates whose exam- 
inations were most satisfactory, with the opinions of 
the Committee on their comparative qualifications, and 
the Board shall then proceed to a choice by ballot. 

Sect. 7. Whenever a teacher, except a Head Mas- 
ter or Master in a Grammar School, is, in the opinion of 
a Standing or District Committee, needed for any school 
under their charge, said Committee shall, before making 
a selection, examine the candidates in the manner 
required by law, with special reference to the place 
which is to be filled; and shall consult with the 



Chap. VI.] EULES. 21 

Head Master of the school or Master of the Dis- 
trict. Teachers thus selected, shall be nominated by 
the Standing or District Committee, to the Board, on 
probation, and shall be entitled to the established salary 
from the time of entering upon their duties ; but they 
shall not be nominated for confirmation as regular Reappointed 
teachers, until after a satisfactory trial of three months, teachers to be 

' •' considered as 

Re-appointed incumbents in the service of this Board new teachers. 
shall rank as and begin with the salary of new teachers. Names of weii 
Sect. 8. Every District Committee which has held ^jjtgg ^t exami- 
an examination of candidates for assistant teachers shall "^*^°°* *° ^® 

preserved. 

keep a record of those whom they consider well qual- 
ified, and the grade of school which they are best suited 
to teach ; this record shall be deposited with the Super- 
intendent, and any District Committee may select one 
of these candidates without another examination. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Duties of the Secretary. 

Section 1. The Secretary shall keep a permanent Records and 
record-book, in which shall be recorded the proceedings 
of the Board, all business transacted, and all votes and 
orders adopted, and he shall have charge of all the 
documents, papers and files of the Board. 

Sect. 2. He shall notify alL regular and special ^°*i'='=« to be 

given. 

meetings of the Board, the meetings of any Standing, 
District, or Special Committee, when requested by the 
Chairman or any two members thereof, instructors of 
their appointment, and the Chairman of any Committee 
appointed, of its purpose, and the names of its members, 
and shall also give such other notices as the Board may 
require. 



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[Chap. VII. 



Report t» Sec- 
retary of State. 



Votes to be 
transmitted. 



Sect. 3. He shall prepare the Annual Report, re- 
quired by the statute of the Comiuonwealth, and trans- 
mit the same, legally signed, to the Secretary of State, 
on or before the thirtieth day of April. 

Sect. 4. He shall transmit to members of the Board, 
Committees, Teachers, or other persons, to whom they 
properly belong, copies of votes, resolutions, or docu- 
ments, and shall perform such other duties as the School 
Committee may prescribe. 



CHAPTER VII, 



Duties of the Auditing Clerk. 



Duties of Au- 
diting Clerli. 



Prepare pay- 
rolls and audit 
bills. 



Charge, dis- 
bursement, and 
record of prop- 
erty. 



Prepare diplo- 
mas. 



Section 1. The Auditing Clerk shall be appointed 
by, and perform his duties under the direction of the 
Committee on Accounts. 

Sect. 2. He shall prepare the pay-rolls of all sala- 
ries in accordance with the regulations and orders of 
the Board, and shall audit all bills of expenditure 
authorized by the Board or the Committee on Accounts. 

Sect. 3. He shall have the charge of all property 
under the control of the Board not otherwise provided 
for, and the disbursement of books and all other arti- 
cles which the Board may have authorized to be fur- 
nished in the public schools, and he shall keep a record 
of all property held by the Committee on Accounts, and 
in use in the schools. 

Sect. 4. He shall attend to the preparation of the 
diplomas which have been awarded in the Schools, and 
deliver them to the Masters at least one day before the 
annual Exhibition. 



Chap. VIII.] RULES. 23 

Sect. 5. He shall keep accounts of all the expend!- To keep ac- 

count of expen- 

tures of the Board in suitable books, which shall always duures, 
be open to the inspection of its members ; and shall 
notify all meetings of the Committee on Accounts, and 
keep a record of the proceedings thereof. 



CHAPTER VIII. "^-^^e^ ,Tj. Ib^t^ 

Duties of the Superintendent. 

Section 1. A Superintendent of Public Schools Election. 
shall be elected annually, by ballot, at the meeting of 
the Board in June, for the next ensuing school year. 
His salary shall at the same meeting be fixed and remain salary. 
unchanged during the year for which he is elected. 

Sect. 2. He shall devote himself to the study of the General duties. 
Public School System, and keep himself acquainted with 
the progress of instruction and discipline in other places, 
in order to suggest appropriate means for the advance- 
ment of the Public Schools in this city, and see that the 
regulations of the Board in regard to these schools are 
carried into full effect. 

Sect. 3. ■ He shall visit each school as often as his visiting 

schools. 

other duties will permit, that he may obtain, as far as 
practicable, a personal knowledge of the condition of 
all the schools, and be able to suggest improvements and 
remedy defects in their management. He shall advise 
the teachers on the best methods of instruction and dis- 
cipline, and to promote this object he shall hold occa- Meetings of 

Grammar and 

sionul meetings of the teachers, and is authorized to Primary school 
dismiss the Grammar Schools one half day semi-annu- 
ally, and the Primary Schools one half day each quarter. 

Sect. 4. He shall render such aid and communicate Assistance to 
such information to the various Committees as they may °°™"" 



24 



RULES. 



[Chap. VIII. 



require of bim, and shall assist them, when desired, in 
the quarterly examinations. He shall determine the 
forms of all registers, record books, blanks and cards 
used in the schools, and shall see that they are of uni- 
form patterns. Application for repairing school appa- 
ratus shall be made to him, and he shall see that all 
necessary repairs aie made. He shall make investiga- 
Atsentees from tious as to the number and the condition of the children 
school. qI" |.]jq gj|.y ^jjQ g^j.g ^Q^ attending the Public Schools, 

and shall endeavor to ascertain the reasons, and to 
suggest and apply the remedies. 
Building and ^ECT. 5. He sliall consult with those who have con- 

altei'ing of 

School-houses, trol of the buildiug and altering of schoolhouses, and 
shall communicate to them such information on the sub- 
ject as he may possess ; he shall suggest such plans as 
he may consider best for the health and convenience of 
the teachers and pupils, and most economical for the 
city; and he shall advise with those through whom the 
school appropriations are expended, to secure uniformity 
in their plans, and economy in their expenditures. 

Sect. 6. He shall attend the meetings of the Board, 
except when the election of Superintendent is under 
consideration, and may, when called upon the President, 
or any member express his opinion on any subject or com- 
municate information. At the quarterly meetings in 
March and September, he shall present to the Board a 
semi-annual Report, in print, giving an account of the 
schools he has visited, and the other duties he has per- 
formed, together with such facts and suggestions relat- 
ing to the condition of the schools, and the increase of 
their efficiency and usefulness, as he may deem advis- 
able. He shall embrace in his reports an abstract of 
the semi-annual returns of the Public Schools, and a 



School ex- 
penses. 



Attend meet- 
ings of Board. 



Senii-annii;il 
report. 



Chap. IX.l EEGULATIONS. , 25 

schedule showing the number of teachers then em- 
ployed ; and these reports shall be referred to the 
Special Committee on the Annual Report. 

Sect. 7. He shall keep a list of those o;raduates of Record of 

" "^ candidates for 

the Girls' High and Normal who desire to become teachers. 
teachers, and any District Committee may select from it 
Assistant or Primary Teachers without further exami- 
nation. He shall also keep a record of the names, ages, 
and residences of those who may desire to be candi- 
dates for the office of As'fistant or Primary Teacher, 
with remarks and suggestions respecting them for the 
information of Committees, which shall be at all times 
open to the inspection of any member of tlie Board, 
He shall perform such other duties as the School Com- 
mittee may prescribe, or from time to time direct. ■ 



CHAPTERIX. 

General Regulations of the Public Schools. 

Section 1. All teachers in the Public Schools are Teachers to ob- 
required to make themselves familiar with these Regula- rlluiationT °° 
tions, especially with those which relate to their duties, 
and to the instruction and discipline of their schools, 
and to see them faithfully observed. 

Sect. 2. The teachers shall punctually observe General duties 
the hours appointed for opening and dismissing the 
schools ; and, during school hours, shall faithfully devote 
themselves to their duties. In all their intercourse with 
their scholars they shall strive to impress on their minds, 
both by precept and example, the great importance of 
earnest efforts for improvement in morals, in manners 
and deportment, as well as in useful learning. 
4 



26 



REGULATIONS. 



[Chap. IX. 



School hours. 



Teachers and 
pupils to be 
at school 
promptly. 



Opening and 
closing exer- 
cises. 



Moral instruc- 
tion. 



Sect. 3. The morning session of the Grammar 
and Primary Schools sliall commence at 9 o'clock, and 
close at 12 o'clock, from the first Monday in September 
to the first Monday in May, and for the remainder of 
tlie school year it shall commence at 8 o'clock, and close 
at 11 o'clock, with a recess throughout the year of 
twenty minutes for all the pupils, when one-half of the 
session has expired. The afternoon session shall begin 
at 2 o'clock, and close at 4 o'clock, without recess. 
Provided, that teachers may judiciously exercise the right 
to detain a pupil for a reasonable time after the regular 
hour for dismissing school, either for purposes of disci- 
pline, or to make up neglected lessons. 

Sect. 4. All the school-rooms shall be opened, and 
the teachers present, both morning and afternoon, ^/een 
minutes before the time for the session to begin. The 
teachers shall require the scholars to be in their seats, 
punctually at the hour for commencing school. 

Sect. 5. The morning exercises of all the schools 
shall commence with the reading by the teacher of a 
portion of the Scriptures, to be followed by the Lord's 
Prayer, repeated by the teachers alone. The afternoon 
session shall close with appropriate singing. 

Sect. 6. Good morals being of the first importance 
to the pupils, and essential to their highest progress in 
useful knowledge, instruction therein shall be daily 
given in each of the schools, and the principles of truth 
and virtue faithfully inculcated upon all suitable occa- 
sions. The pupils shall be carefully instructed to avoid 
idleness and profanity, falsehood and deceit, and every 
wicked and disgraceful practice, and to conduct them- 
selves in an orderly and proper manner ; and it shall 
be the duty of the instructors, so far as practicable, to 



Chap. IX.] EEGULATIONS. 27 

exercise a general inspection over them in these regards, 
both in and out of school, and also while going to the 
same and returning home. 

Sect. 7. In every school shall be kept a register in school register 
which shall be recorded the names, ages, dates of ^° ^^^°^ ^' 
admission, and places of residence of the scholars, and 
in addition to this, other records, in which shall be 
entered the daily absence of the scholars, and such 
notes of their class-exercises as may exhibit a view of 
their advancement and standing. 

Sect. 8. Application shall be made to the Auditing Blanks for 
Clerk for school registers, books for records, blanks for ^'^^°°^^- 
monthly reports, books for indigent children, and 
stationery, through whom the Committee on accounts 
will furnish what is required to all the Schools. 

Sect. 9. The Masters of the Grammar Schools Masters to 
shall perform the duties of Principal both in the Gram- ^gtricts^and 
mar and Primary Schools of their respective districts, ^^^^^""^ *^® 

schools. 

apportioning their time among the various classes in 
such manner as shall secure the best interests, as far as . 
possible, of each pupil throughout all the grades, under 
the directions of the District Committees; and they 
shall visit and examine the schools of their Districts as 
often as they can consistently with their other duties. 

Sect. 10. During the first week in March and semi-annuai 
September, the Master of each District shall make to 
the Superintendent of Public Schools, returns of the 
number of pupils belonging to the District, conformably 
to the blanks furnished for this purpose, including the 
names of those pupils whose parents or guardians do 
not reside in the city, with the date of their admission. 

Sect. 11. The Master in each District shall, within to notify au- 
one week after the appointment of a teacher, send to ^^"^ 



28 



REGULATIONS. 



[Chap. IX. 



appointment or 
resignation of 
teachers. 

Teachers visit- 
ing schocris. 



Corporal pun- 
ishment. 



the Auditing Clerk the full name of such teacher, with 
the day he or slie entered upon the duties of the office; 
he shall also ^ive iui mediate notice when any teacher 
has been transferred to another grade, or has resigned. 

Sect. 12. Teachers may visit other schools once a 
qua)-ter to observe modes of discipline and instruction, 
if the care of their pupils has been provided for in a 
manner satisfactory to the Chairman of the District 
Committee or the Master. 

Sect. 13. All instructors shall aim at such disci- 
pline in their schools as would be exercised by a kind, 
judicious parent in his family, avoiding corporal punish- 
ment in all cases where good order can be preserved 
by milder measures; and in no case resorting to- con- 
finement in a closet or wardrobe, or to other cruel or 
unusual punishment. It shall be the duty of all the 
teachers in the public schools, at the close of each month, 
to make, in writing, to the Chairman of their District 
Committees, a report of all cases in which corporal 
punishment has been inflicted ; which report shall state 
the name of the pupil, the amount of punishment, and 
the reason for its infliction : and the Chairman of each 
District Committee shall, in his quarterly report, give 
the number of cases of corporal punishmei»t during the 
previous quarter and the average to each teacher of 
the District. Corporal punishment shall be inflicted 
only after the nature of the offence has been fully ex- 
plained to the scholar, and shall be restricted to blows 
on the hand with a rattan, except in cases where a pupil 
refuses to submit to such punishment. Corporal pun- 
ishment shall not be inflicted on a girl in a gram- 
mar or primaiy school without the consent and ap- 
prcn-al of the Master of the District, first obtained in 
each and every case. 



Chap. IX.] KEQULATIONS. 29 

Sect. 14. For violent or pointed opposition to Exclusion of a 

... . , . ^r pupil. 

authority m any particular instance, a Master may 
discharge a child from school for the time being; but 
he shall immediately inform the parent or guardian of 
the measure, and apply to tlie District Committee for 
advice and direction. Whenever any scholar is absent 
Irom school, the teacher shall immediately ascertain the 
reason ; and, if such absence is not satisfactorily ex- 
plained, the District Committee may suspend or dis- 
charge the pupil, but a record of the facts shall be kept. 
Sect. 15. When the example of any pupil is very 
injurious, and in all cases where reformation appears suspension ana 
hopeless, it shall be the duty of the Master, with the '•'^"i°» °f 

' ' •' ' pupils. 

approbation of the District Committee, to suspend such 
pupil from the school ; but if he shall openly express to 
the teacher his regret for his misconduct and give evi- 
dence of amendment, he shall with the consent of said 
Committee be reinstated in the school. 

Sect. 16. Whenever a pupil has left school intend- Absences. 
ing not to return, or when a pupil has been absent for 
five consecutive school days, the teacher shall take the 
name of such pupil from the list, but in each case the . 
previous absences shall remain recorded. The name of 
a pupil who is suspended from school under any rule of 
the Board shall be taken from the list. Any pupil 
shall be recorded as absent who has not been in 
s.ihool for at least one-half of the session. In noting 
the absences of pupils, the short vacations shall be dis- 
regarded, and pupils who are not present on the first 
half day thereafter shall be marked as absent. 

Sect. 17. In cases of doubt or difficulty in the dis- Teachers, in 
charge of their official duties, or when they may desire cuity, to apply 
any temporary aid, the teachers shall apply to their *° ^^''*™* 

•''■'' ci J Committees. 

District Committee for advice and assistance. 



30 REGULATIONS. [Chap. IX. 

Absentees must Sect. 18. Whenever a teacher is absent, a substitute 

pay their sub- 
stitutes, shall be employed who shall be paid from the salary of 

the absentee, unless, after a report on the case by the 

Committee on Salaries, the Board shall otherwise order. 

The compensation of substitutes and temporary teachers 

shall be at the following rate for each day, reckoning 

six school days in the week : 

Rates of pay Head Masters $7.00 

to substitutes Masters 5.50 

and temporary gub-Masters 4.25 

teachers. 

• Ushers 3.00 

Assistants in Girls' High and Normal 1.75 

Female Teachers in Primary and Grammar 1 .50 

Females serving as temporary teachers in the place 

of male teachers 1.75 

Substitutes shall not be employed in any school 
for more than one day at a time without tlie approba- 
tion of two members of the Standing or District Com 
mittee, the Chairman being one of them. 
Temperature Sect. 19. Tcachcrs shall givG vigilaut attention to 
and ventilation. j.j^g veiitilatiou and temperature of their school-rooms 
both in winter and in summer, and see that the air in 
• the rooms is effectually changed at each recess, and at 
the end of each school session. 
Guard against Sect. 20. Mastcrs duriug the season of fires shall 
*^'"^*" have the cellars and unoccupied rooms of the Grammar 

School building examined once an hour during each 
session. 
Physical exer- Sect. 21. The tcachcrs in the Public Schools shall 
CISC in schools, g^ arrange the daily exercises in their classes that every 
scholar shall have, each forenoon and afternoon, some 
kind of physical exercise. 
Care of school Sect. 22. The Mastcr iu thc District shall prcscribe 
premises. gy,.j^ j.^j^.., for.tlic usc of the yards and out-buildings as 



Chap. IX.] REGULATIONS. ^l 

shall insure their beini; kept in a neat and proper con- 
dition, shall examine them as often as may be neces- 
sary for that purpose ; and shall be held responsible 
for any want of cleanliness on the premises, and wlien 
anything is out of order, he must give immediate notice 
thereof to the Superintendent of Public Buildings. Teachers not to 

Sect. 23. No teacher shall keep a private school, or ^^e™! ^ !^" 
teach in any other public school, nor instruct private 
pupils before 6 o'clock p. m., except on Wednesday and 
Saturday afternoons, nor edit any newspaper, or reli- 
gious or political periodical. 

Sect. 24. Teachers shall not award diplomas or Presents. 
prizes to their pupils ; nor receive any present of ^^^.^^-^^ ,. 
money, or other property, from them. No contribution 
for any purpose shall be permitted in any public school. 

Sect. 25. No advertisement shall be read to the no advertise- 

• } r 11 .1 ■! M ■ n ment to be read 

pupils of any school, or posted upon the walls or fences tothepupus. 
of any school building, nor shall any agent or other 

iSTo agent to ex- 

person be permitted to enter any school for the pur- Mbit articles in 
pose of exhibiting, either to teacher or pupils, any new 
book or article of apparatus. 

Sect. 26. The books used and the studies pursued Authorized 
in all the Public Schools shall be such only as may be studies. 
authorized by the Board; and the teachers shall not 
permit any books, tracts, or other publications to be 
distributed in their schools. 

Sect. 27. Pupils shall not be allowe,d to remain in pupiismust 
any of the Public Schools unless they are furnished anruteLiiT ^ 
with the books and utensils regularly required in the ''e':i"i''«'d. 
respective classes. 

Sect. 28. Pupils who, through the poverty or negli- Books for indi- 
gence of their parents or guardians, are not provided ^^^ 
with the necessary text-books, shali be furnished them 



32 REGULATIONS. [Chap. IX. 

under the provisions of the General Statutes, Chap. 
38, § 30 ; and teachers shall make application there- 
for to the Auditing Clerk, through whom they will be 
provided by the Committee on Accounts. During the 
first week in April, annually, the Master in eacli District 
shall make to the Auditing Clerk, on a blank furnished 
by him, a return of the names of the scholars, and their 
parents, guardians or masters, to whom books have been 
furnished at the expense of the city, and the names of 
the books thus furnished. 
Children en- Sect. 29. All cliildreu Hviiig in the city, who are 

the public upwards of jBve years of age, and not disqualified, shall 



schools. 



be entitled to attend the public schools; but no non- 
resident child or one who has only a temporary resi- 
dence in the cit}", shall be received or retained in any 
school, except with the consent of the Standing or Dis- 
trict Committee, who may, in accordance with the provi- 
sions of the General Statutes, require the parent or 
guardian of such child to pay the average cost per 
scholar in such school, for the time the child has been 
instructed there. 
Pupils expelled Sect. 30. No pupll who lias been expelled, or is 

or suspended. 

under suspension from one school, shall be admitted 
into another, except by consent of the Board. 
Certificate of Sect. 31. No pupil sliall bc admitted into any of 

vaccinution. 

the Public Schools without a certificate of vaccination 
from a physician, or who is not otherwise pi-otected 
against the small-pox; but this certificate shall not be 
. required of pupils who are transferred from one public 
school to another. 
Cleanliness of Sect. 32. Evcry pupil must come to school cleanly 

pupils required. ... , . i ui i • i ii i 

in his person and dress, and with Ins clothes properly 
repaired; in case of neglect in this respect, it shall be 



Chap. IX.] EEGULATIONS. 33 

the duty of the teacher to send him home to be suitably 
prepared for school. 

Sect. 33. Tardiness, unless satisfactorily explained, ^^^"^'^^^^ ^""^ 

absence of 

shall be subject to a proper penalty. Xo pupil shall be pupus. 

absent a part of the session for the purpose of receiv- 

iiiff instruction elsewhere; nor shall any pupil leave ^'®™^^^'°'^ °^ 

'-^ ' ./ I 1 pupils before 

before the close of school, without the consent of the tte close of the 

session. 

teacher. Pupils detained from school must bring an 
excuse when they return. Teachers shall report the 
names and residences of habitual truants, and the ^^'^^y* 
names of their parents or guardians, to the Truant 
Officers. 

Sect. 34. There shall be an exhibition of the Latin ^nnuaiExu- 

bitions. 

School on the Tuesday preceding the second Wednes- 
day in July, of the English High School on the Saturday, 
and of the several Grammar Schools on the Tuesday? 
succeeding the third Wednesday in July ; the exhibition 
of the Grammar Schools for girls may however take 
place on Monday, instead of Tuesday, if the District 
Committee so direct. The President of the Board 
shall assign the hour at which the several exhibitions 
shall commence, and they shall not exceed two hours in 
length ; they shall be conducted in such a manner as to 
present the actual proficiency of the scholars in the 
studies pursued during the year. 

Sect. 35. An Annual Exhibition of the acquirements Musical fbb- 
[Of the pupils of the public schools in Music shall be 
eld, under the direction of the Committee on Music, 
n the Wednesday. preceding the close of the spring 
iierm. The Annual Festival complimentary to the Diploma Fet- 
(liiploma scholars shall take place, under the direction 
^, cof a special committee, on the afternoon of the day 
3|,ssigned for the exhibitions of the Grammar Schools. 

5 



34 



REGULATIONS. 



[Chap. IX. 



Holidays and 
vacations. 



Reading of 
Washington'a 
Farewell Ad- 
dress. 



Sect. 36. The following holidays and vacations 
shall be granted to the schools, viz : every Wednesday 
and Saturday afternoon, throughout the year ; Christmas 
day, New Year's day, the Twenty-second of February, 
Good Friday, Fast day. May day, Artilleiy Election, and 
the Fourth of July; Thanksgiving week; the week 
immediately preceding the first Monday in March ; one 
week commencing on the Monday preceding the last 
Wednesday in May; and the remainder of the school 
year following their respective exhibitions to the Latin 
and the Grammar Schools; and to the English High 
School, from the day of its annual Exhibition to the 
Saturday next preceding the second Monday in Septem- 
ber; and to the Girls' High and Normal School from 
the Monday following the third Wednesday in July to 
the Saturday next preceding the third Monday in Sep- 
tember. The Primary Schools shall close on the 
Saturday succeeding the third Wednesday in July, for 
the remainder of the school year. The President of 
the Board is authorized to suspend the schools on public 
occasions, but not exceeding three days in each municipal 
year. The Latin and English High Schools shall be 
entitled to the two days of public Exhibition at Harvard 
University. No other holidays shall be allowed except 
by special vote of the Board ; and no school shall be 
suspended on any other occasion, except for important 
reasons peculiar to that school, and then only by express 
permission of at least two members of the District 
Committee. 

Sect. 37. On the 21st of February, annually, 
each Master shall assemble his pupils, and read, or 
cause to be read to them, extracts from Washington's 



Chap. X.] EEGULATIONS. 35 

Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 
combining; therewith such other patriotic exercises as 
he may think advisable. 



CHAPTER X. 

Regtdations of the Primary Schools. 

Section 1. The Primary Schools form the lowest 
grade in the system of public instruction established in 
this city, and in them are taught the rudiments of an 
English education. 

Sect. 2. Children shall be admitted into those Admission of 

. pupils to Pri- 

schools nearest their residence for which they are quali- mary schools. 
fied, provided such schools are not already full; and in 
all cases of doubt or difficulty in respect to the admis- 
sion of pupils the teacher shall apply to her Sub-Com- 
mittee or the Master in the District for advice and direc. 
tion. Teachers of the Sixth Class, with the permission 
of their District Committees, may decline to receive 
pupils after the eighth week following the first Monday 
of March and September, or whenever the number of 
pupils shall exceed sixty; but a record shall be kept by 
each teacher of the names and residence of all applicants 
who have been refused admission, so that District Com- 
mittees may know the number of children requiring school 
accommodations. Applicants shall be admitted in the 
order of their applications. 

Sect. 3. A certificate of transfer shall be required Transferor 
of pupils removing from one school to another, which ^"^' *' 
shall serve also as a certificate of vaccination. 

Sect. 4. The regular promotion of scholars to the Promotion to 
Grammar Schools shall be made on the first Monday in schools. 



36 



REGULATIONS. 



[Chap. X. 



Schools for 
special instruc- 
tion. 



Proper care of 
the pupils in 
school. 

Recesses for 
Primary 
Schools in 
Grammar 
School build- 
ing. 

Number of 
pupils to a 
school. 

Classification. 

Sewing. . 



Singing. 



Promotions. 



March and the first Monday in September. Occasion- 
ally promotions 'may bo made on Monday of any week, 
whenever the Sub-Committee and the Master in the 
District may deem it advisable. 

Sect. 5. Schools for the special instruction of chil 
dren over seven years of age, not qualified for the Gram- 
mar School, may be established in each District, in 
which the course of study shall be the same as in tlie 
Primary Schools, though the District Committee may 
introduce Writing and the elements of Written Arith- 
metic. Any Primary scholar over eight years of age? 
and not in the first or second class, may be removed to 
a school for special instruction, at the discretion of the 
Master or the Sub-Committee. 

Sect. 6. Teachers shall give particular attention to 
the physical culture and to the comfort of the pupils 
under their care. If the Weather or other causes render 
a recess in the open air impracticable, the children shall 
be exercised in the school room. The recesses of 
schools in Grammar School buildings shall be arranged 
by the Master of the District. 

Sect. 7. Each school shall contain, as nearly as pos- 
sible, fifty-six pupils, which shall be the standard num- 
ber ; and the schools in each District shall be classified 
under the direction of the District Committee. 

Sect. 8. Plain sewing may be introduced into any 
Primary School, if the Sub-Committee think it advisable. 
Singing shall form part of the opening aad closing exer- 
cises of every session. 

Sect. 9. Scholars must be familiar with the lessons 
of the class they are in, before they are promoted to 
another, unless there are special reasons satisfactory to 
the Master in the District. 



Chap. X.] EEGULATIONS. 3T 

Sect. 10. The following Books and Studies shall be 
attended to in the respective classes. The OEDER of the 
exercises and lessons assicrned to each class shall he deter- 

o 

mined by the teacher ; subject, however, to the direction of 
the District Committee. 

SIXTH CLASS. 

Hillard's First Primary Reader to the 30th page ; the 
"words in columns to be spelled without book, and also 
words selected from the reading lessons. 

Boston Primary School Tablets. Number Eleven, — 
the words and elementary sounds repeated after the 
teacher. Number One, — the name and sound of each 
letter, including the long and short sound of each vowel. 
Number Fifteen to be read and spelled by letters and 
by sound, and read by calling the words at sight. Num- 
ber Sixteen to be read by spelling, and by calling words 
at sight, with oral lessons on the meaning of the sen- 
tences. Number Thirteen to be spelled by sounds. 
Numbers Nine and Ten to be used in reviewing the 
alphabet, for variety of forms of letters. Number Five? 
— the pupil to name and point out the lines and plane 
figures. Number Two, — analyze the forms of the cap- 
itals, and tell what lines compose each. 

Boston Primary School Slate, No. 1. Print the small 
letters, and draw the straight lines and the rectilinear 
figures. The blackboard and tablets to be used in 
teaching the slate exercises. 

Develop the idea of numbers to ten, by the use 
of objects. Count to one hundred on the numeral 
frame. 

Repeating verses and maxims. Oral lessons on size, 
form, and color, illustrated by objects, in the school- 



38 REGULATIONS. [Chap. X. 

room ; also upon common plants and animals, illustrated 
by the objects themselves or by pictures. 

Learning to read and spell from letter and v^ord 
cards, at the option of the teacher. 
Music. Ten minutes in each session shall be devoted by the 

teachers to instruction in Music; and such further time 
in each scliool as the Committee on Music and the Dis- 
trict Committee may deem expedient. 

Vocal and Physical exercises not less than thirty 
minutes each day. 

FIFTH CLASS. 

Hillard's First Primanj Reader, as in the Sixth 
Class, completed. 

Worcester's Primary Spelling Book. 

Boston Primary School Tablets. Review the exercises 
on Tablets prescribed for the Sixth Class. Number 
Nineteen entire, and Number Twenty to L. Number 
Six, — name and point out the figures and their parts. 
Number Eleven to be taught from the tablet. Number 
Fourteen, — syllables to be spelled by sound. 

Boston Primary School Slate, No. 1. Review the 
slate exercises prescribed for the Sixth Class. Print 
the capital letters, also short words; draw the curvi- 
linear figures. 

Counting real objects, and counting with the numeral 
frame by twos to one hundred. 

Repeating verses and maxims. Oral lessons on form, 
size, and color, and on plants and animals. Music, 
vocal and physical exercises as above. 

FOURTH CLASS. 

Hillard's Second Primary Reader, to the 50th page ; 
the words in columns to be spelled, and also words 



Chap. X.] REGULATIONS. 39 

selected from the reading lessons. Spelling words by 
sounds. Worcester'' s Primary Spelling Book. 

Hohmann's Practical Course in Singing. Part I. 

Boston Primary School Tablets. Numbers Five and ■ 
Six reviewed, with description or analysis of the lines 
and figures. Numbers Eleven, Thirteen, and Fourteen, 
reviewed. Numbers Twelve and Twenty to be learned. 
Numbers Seventeen and Eighteen, — names of punctua- 
tion marks. 

Boston Primary School Slate, No. 1, — used daily.' 
Copies in printing and drawing reviewed and com- 
pleted. Printing four or five words daily. Writing 
Arabic figures. 

Adding and subtracting numbers to twenty, illus- 
trated by objects and the numeral frame. Counting 
on the numeral frame by twos to one hundred, and by 
threes to fifty. 

Repeating ■ verses and maxims. Oral lessons on 
objects as above, with their parts, qualities, and uses. 
Music, vocal and physical exercises as above. 

THIRD CLASS. 

Hillard^s Second Primary Reader, completed; the 
words in columns to be spelled, and also words selected 
from the reading lessons. ■ At .each lesson in reading 
and spelling, words spelled by sounds. Conversations 
on the Ineaning of what is read. 

Worcester's Primary SjJelling Book. 

Hohmann's Practical Course in Singing. Part I. 

Boston Primary School Tablets. Numbers Five, Six, 
Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, and Twenty, re- 
viewed. Number Three. . Number Eighteen, — use of 
punctuation marks commenced. 



40 REGULATIONS. [Chap. X. 

Boston Primary School Slate, No. 2. Write the small 
script letters and draw the plane figures. Exercises in 
writing and drawing to be illustrated by tablets and 
blackboard. Print a few words in capitals. 

Eaton's Primary School Arithmetic begun. Miscella- 
neous questions in adding and subtracting small num- 
bers. Practical questions involving similar combina- 
tions. The idea of multiplication developed by the use 
of the numeral frame. Numbers to be combined, occa- 
sionally written on slates from dictation. 

Repeating verses and maxims. Abbreviations. Oral 
lessons as above, and upon common objects, and the 
senses. Music, vocal and physical exercises as above. 

SECOND CLASS. 

Hillard's Third Primary Reader, to the 100th page; 
the words in columns to be spelled, and also words se- 
lected from the reading lessons. Difficult words to be 
spelled by sounds. Conversations on the meaning of 
what is read. 

Worcester'' s Primary Spelling Book. 

Eaton's Primary Arithmetic, — addition, subtraction 
and multiplication tables to be learned, and the practi- 
cal questions under these rules to be attended to. 

Hohmann's P'-actical Course in Singing. Part I. 

Boston Frimary School Tablets. Numbers Three, Five, 
Six, Eleven, Twelve, and Eighteen, to be reviewed. 
Number Seven, — drawing and oral lessons on the ob- 
jects represented. Number eighteen, — uses and defi- 
nitions of points and marks learned, and applied in 
reading lessons. 

Boston Primary School Slate, No. 2. Writing capi- 
tal and small letters, and drawing planes and solids, 



Chap. X.] REGULATIONS. 41 

with illustrations from tablets and blackboard. Writ- 
ing short words. Review abbreviations and Roman 
numerals. 

Repeating verses and maxims. Oral lessons on ob- 
jects, trades, and the most common phenomena of na- 
ture. Singing and physical exercises as above. 

FIRST CLASS. 

Hillard's Third Primary Reader, completed ; with 
definitions, explanations, spelling by letters and by 
sounds ; also questions on punctuation, the use of capi- 
tals, and the marks indicating the pronunciation. 

Worcester's Primary Spelling Book. 

Eaton's Primary Arithmetic, completed. The tables 
of mu'.tiplication and division to 12x^2 and 144-7-12. 
Notation to 1,000. Counting by threes and fours, 
forwards to a hundred, and backwards, from a hundred 
to one. Practical questions to be attended to. 

Hohmann's Practical Course in Singing. Part I. 

Boston Primary School Tablets. Review those used in 
the Second Class. Frequent drill on Number Twelve. 
Number Eight, drawing and oral lessons on the objects 
represented. 

Boston Prima'^y School Slate No. 2. Writing capitals 
and small letters, the pupil's name, and words from the 
spelling lessons, with particular care to imitate the let- 
ters on the frame. Drawing all the copies on the frame. 

Repeating verses and maxims. Review abbreviations. 
Oral lessons on objects, trades, occupations, with exer- 
cise of observation by noting the properties and quali- 
ties of objects, comparing and classifying them, consid- 
ering their uses, the countries from which they come, and 
their modes of production, preparation, or fabrication. 

Music, vocal and physical exercises as above. 

6 



42 



REGULATIONS. 



[Chap. XI. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Regulations of Grammar Schools. 



8econd grade. 



Instructors in 
boys' schools. 



In girls' 
schools. 



In mixed 
schools. 



Number of 
pupils to a 
teacher. 



Qualifications 
for admission 
to the Gram- 
mar Schools. 



Section 1. The Grammar Scliools form the second 
grade in the system of public instruction established in 
this city; and in them are taught the common branches 
of an English education. 

Sect. 2. The schools for boys shall each be in- 
structed by a Master, a Sub-Master, an Usher, a Head- 
Assistant, and three or more female Assistants. 

The schools for girls shall each be instructed by a 
Master, a Head-Assistant for each story in the building, 
and three or more female Assistants. 

The mixed schools (boys' and girls') shall each be 
instructed by a Master, a Sub-Master, a Head-Assistant 
for each story in the building, and three or more female 
Assistants. 

Any exceptions to the foregoing organizations, author- 
ized by special vote of the Board, shall remain until 
otherwise ordered. 

Sect. 3. A teacher shall be allowed in all the schools 
for every fifty-six pupils on the register, but the District 
Committee may appoint an additional assistant when there 
is an excess of thirty pupils, or remove one when there 
is a deficit of thirty pupils. In determining the number 
of teachers, the Master's Assistant shall not be counted. 

Sect. 4. Pupils shall not be admitted into the 
Grammar Schools except by special permit of the Dis- 
trict Committee, unless on examination by the master or 
his assistants, they shall be able to read, at first sight, 



Chap. XI.] REGULATIONS. 43 

easy prose; to spell common words of one, two, or 
three syllables ; to distinguish and name the marks of 
punctuation ; to perform mentally such simple questions 
in Addition, Subtraction, and Division, as may be found 
in Baton's Primary Arithmetic; to answer readily any 
proposed combination of the Multiplication Table in 
which neither factor exceeds ten; to read and write 
Arabic numbers containing three figures, and the Roman 
numerals as far as the sign of one hundred ; and to 
enunciate, clearly and accurately, the elementary sounds 
of our language. 

Sect. 5. In the months of February and July, each Examination of 
Master shall examine the first classes of the Primary ars"for promo- 
Schools in the District, and such pupils as are found *'°°*°f^''^™" 

' '- '■ mar School. 

qualified, shall receive a certificate of admission to a 
Grammar School. The parent of any pupil not ac- 
cepted may, if dissatisfied, appeal to tlie District Com- 
mittee for their decision. 

Sect. 6. Pupils promoted from the Primary Schools Times of ad- 
mitting pupila 
shall enter the Grammar Schools on the first Monday of to Grammar 

March and of September; other applicants residing in 
the District may enter on any Monday morning, pro- 
vided they are found qualified. Pupils regularly dis- 
charged from another Grammar School may be admitted 
at any time, on presenting their certificates of transfer. 

Sect. 7. No lessons shall be assigned to girls to be out-of-schooi 

. .. lessons. 

Studied out of school ; and, m assigning such lessons to 
boys, they shall be of such a character that a boy of 
good capacity can acquire them by an hour's study ; 
lessons to be studied in school shall not be such as to 
require a scholar of ordinary capacity to study out of 
school to learn them ; no out-of-school lessons shall be 
assigned on Saturday. 



44 



REGULATIONS. 



[Chap. XI. 



Classes and 
eections. 



Pupils to attend 
school in Dis- 
trict where they 
reside. 



Instruction in 
Music. 



Instruction in 
Vocal and Phys- 
ical culture. 



Instruction in 
Sewing. 



Teacher of 
Sewing. 



Sect. 8. Each school shall be divided into four 
classes ; each class into two or more divisions. If any 
division completes the course of study assigned to its 
class previous to the regular time for promotion, it may, 
with the approval of the District Committee and the 
Master, commence upon the text-books prescribed for 
the next higher class. 

Sect. 9. No pupil shall be admitted to or retained 
in any school, except that for the District in which such 
pupil resides, without the written consent of the District 
Committee, both of the school to which the pupil be- 
longs, and of that where he seeks to be admitted or 
retained. 

Sect. 10. Vocal Music shall be taught by the Music 
Teachers, in the First and Second Classes of the Gram- 
mar Schools, two half hours each week; and by the 
assistant teachers, in the Third and Fourth Classes, 
fifteen minutes each forenoon ; and it shall be in all 
respects regarded as one of the regular studies of the 
schools. 

Sect. 11. Vocal and physical exercises shall be 
taught by the Instructor and Assistant Instructor in 
that department, under the direction of the Committee 
on Vocal and Physical Culture ; and each teacher shall 
give careful and regular attention to these exercises 
for not less than twenty minutes each day. 

Sect. 12. Instruction shall be given in Sewing to 
all the pupils in the fourth class in each of the Grammar 
Schools for girls. The District Committee of each 
school in which such instruction is given shall nominate 
to the Board, for confirmation, some qualified person 
as Teacher of Sewing, who shall give to each pupil two 
lessons a week of not less than one hour each. 



Chap. XI.] EEGULATIONS. 45 

Sect. 13. It shall be the duty of each District Com committees to 

superintend the 

mittee, at the beginning of the school year, either at a organization of 
special meeting, or through their chairman, to superin- 
tend the organization of the first class of the Grammar 
School, and, at the close of each school year, to see that 
none are retained as members of that class who are No pupils to be 
qualified to enter the English High School, or the Girls' should join the 
High and Normal School. No pupil shall be allowed to ^'^^ ^°^°°'^- 
remain in the graduating class more than one year, with- 
out the consent of the District Committee. 

Sect. 14. The books and exercises of the several Text-books, 
classes shall be as follows, except that each District 
Committee may omit, or limit, such studies as, in their 
judgment, is best; but all such discretionary action 
shall be stated in their Quarterly reports, viz : 

Class 4:. — No. 1. Worcester's Spelling Book. 2. Hi 1- same. 
lard's Fourth Reader. 3. Writing in each school, in 
such Writing Books as the District Committee may 
approve. 4. Drawing in Bartholomew's Drawing Books. 
5. Eaton's Intellectual Arithmetic, with lessons in 
Written Arithmetic on the slate and blackboard. 6. 
Warren's Primary Geography. Hohmann's Practical 
Course in Singing, Part 11. 

Class S. — No. 1. Worcester's Spelling Book. 2. Hil- same. 
lard's Intermediate Reader. 3. Writing, as in Fourth 
Class. 4. Eaton's Intellectual Arithmetic, and Eaton's 
Common School Arithmetic, revised edition. 5. Draw- 
ing in Bartholomew's Drawing Books. 6. Warren's 
Primary Geography. 7. Kerl's Elementary English 
Grammar. Hohmann's Practical Course in Singing^ 
Parts III and IV (in one volume). 

Class 2. — No. 1. Spelling. 2. Hillard's Fifth Reader. Text-books 
3. Writing, as in Fourth Class. 4. Eaton's Intellectual 



46 REGULATIONS. [Chap. XI. 

Arithmetic, and Eaton's Common School Arithmetic, 
revised edition. 5. Warren's Common School Geo^;- 
raphy, with exercises in Map Drawing on the blackboard 
and by pen and pencil. 6. Kerl's Elementary English 
Grammar or Kerl's Comprehensive English Grammar. 
7 Drawing in Bartholomew's Drawing Books. 8. Ex- 
ercises in Composition, and, in the boys' schools, in 
Declamation, 9. Swan's First Lesspns in the History 
of the United States. 10. Hullah's adaptation of Wil- 
hem's Method of Teaching Vocal Music, with the addi- 
tion of miscellaneous songs, by J. B. Sharland. 

Same. CI OSS 1. — No. 1. Spelling. 2. Reading in Hillard's 

Sixth Reader. 3. Writing as in Fourth Class. 4. 
Geography, as in Class Two. 5. Eaton's Intellectual 
Arithmetic, and Eaton's Grammar School Arithmetic, 
omitting Alligation, and all after applications of Cube 
Root. 6. Grammar. 7. Exercises in Composition, and 
in the boys' schools, in Daclamaiion. 8. Drawing in 
Bartholomew's Drawing Books. 9. Worcester's Dic- 
tionary. 10. Book-keeping by single entry. 11. United 
States and English History, Worcester's History. 12. 
Lectures in Natural Philosophy, with the use of the 
Philosophical Apparatus provided for the schools: also. 
Lectures in Physiology. 13. Physical Geography, by 
occasional exercises; using Guyot's Maps. 14. Hullah's 
adaptation of Wilhem's Method of Teaching Yocal Mu- 
sic, with the addition of miscellaneous songs, by J. B. 
Sharland. 

Teaching of Sect. 15. In teaching Arithmetic, every teacher 

Arithmetic. 

shall be at liberty to employ such books as he shall 
deem useful, for the purpose of illustration or exam- 
ples ; l)ut such books shall not be used to the exclusion 
or neglect of the prescribed text-books; nor shall pupils 



Chap. XII.] REGULATIONS. 47 

be required to furnish themselves with any but the regu- 
lar text-books. 

Sect. 16. One treatise on Mental Arithmetic, and Text-books. 
one treatise on Written Arithmetic, and no more, shall 
be used as text-books in the Grammar Schools. 

Sect. 17. It is recommended that in the arrange- Arrangement 
ment of the studies and recitations in the Grammar °nd recitations. 
Schools, those which most severely task the pupils be, 
as far as possible, assigned for the forenoon. 



CHAPTER XII. 

Regulations of the Latin Grammar School. 

Section 1. The object of this school is to instruct objects of the 
boys in the Latin and Greek languages, and in all other 
branches of study necessary to fit them for admission 
into colleges of the highest character. The following 
are the special regulations for this school, in addition to 
those common to all the schools. 

Sect. 2. The teachers in this school sliall be a Teachers. 
Head Master, a Master, and as many Sub-Masters 
as shall allow one instructor to every thirty-five pupils 
and no additional Sub-Master shall be allowed for a less 
number. The teachers must be graduates of a college 
in good standing. 

Sect. 3. Each candidate for admission shall be at candidates for 
least ten years of age, and shall produce a certificate of ^ '^'■""-'--^ 
good moral character from his last teacher; he shall be 
able to read English correctly and fluently, to spell words 
of common occurrence, to write a running hand, under- 
stand Mental Arithmetic and the simple rules of Written 



48 



REGULATIONS. 



[Chap. XII. 



Examination of 
candidates. 



Classes. 



Examination of 
classes. 



School hours. 



Course of study 
to occupy six 
years. 



Diploma. 



Instruction in 
Military Drill. 



Arithmetic, and be able to state the leading facts in Geog- 
raphy, and have sufficient knowledge of English Grammar 
to parse common prose. A knowledge of Latin Gram- 
mar shall be considered equivalent to that of English. 

Sect. 4. Candidates for adniissi(m shall be exam- 
ined onl}' on the Friday and Saturday preceding the 
commencement of the Fall Term, 

Sect. 5. The school shall be divided into such 
classes and divisions as the Head Master and the Com- 
mittee may thiidc advisable. 

Sect. 6. The Head Master shall examine all the 
pupils in the school as often as he can consistently with 
proper attention to those in his own class. 

Sect. 7. The session of the school shall begin at 9 
o'clock A. M. and close at 2 o'clock p. m. every school- 
day, except Saturday, when the school shall close nt 1 
o'clock. 

Sect. 8. The regular course of instruction shall be 
arranged for six years, and no scholar shall continue a 
member of the school beyond that term, unless by writ- 
ten consent of the Committee. But scholars shall be 
advanced according to scholarship, and may complete 
their course in five years or less time, if willing to make 
due exertions. 

Sect. 9. Pupils who shall honorably complete the 
prescribed course of studies to the satisfaction of the 
Committee and the Head Master, shall be entitled to 
receive a suitable diploma at graduation. 

Sect. 10. Instruction in Military Drill shall be 
given under the general supervision of the Committee 
on Vocal and Physical Culture, who are authorized to 
provide a suitable place and arms for drilling, and to 
appoint a drill-master. The time occupied in drills 
shall exceed not two hours each week. 



Chap. XII.] REGULATIONS. • 49 

Sect. 11. The instructors shall pay particular atten- Attention to be 

given to Pen- 

tiou to tlie penmanship of the pupils, and give such manship, speii- 
instruction in Spelling, Reading, and English Gi'ammar/^"^'-g^gjjg^^' 
as they may deem necessary to make the pupils familiar Grammar, 
with those fundamental branches. 

Sect. 12. The books and exercises required in the course of 

studies and 

course of instruction in this school, are the following : — text-books. 



Class 6. 1. Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Gram- 
mar. . 2. English Grammar. 3. Reading English. 4. 
Spelling. 5. Mental Arithmetic. 6. Mitchell's Geo- 
graphical Questions. 7. Declamation. 8. Penmanship. 
9. Andrews' Latin Lessons. 10. Andrews' Latin 
Reader. 

Class 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, continued. 11. Yiri 
Romee. 12. Written translations. 13. Colburn's Sequel. 
14. Cornelius Nepos. 15. Arnold's Latin Prose Com- 
position. 

Class 4. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 15, continued. 
16. Sophocles' Greek Grammar. 17. Sophocles' Greek 
Lessons, 18. Csesar's Commentaries. 19. Fasquelle's 
French Grammar. 20. Exercises in speaking and read- 
ing French with a native French teacher. 

Class 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, Test-books, 
continued. 21. Ovid's Metamorphoses. 22. Arnold's 
Greek Prose Composition. 23. Felton's Greek Reader. 
24. Sher win's Algebra. 25. English Composition, 
26. Le Grandpere. 

Class 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, same. 
.25, continued. 27. Virgil. 28. Elements of History. 
29. Translations from English into Latin. 

Class I. 1, 7, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, Same. 
29, continued. 30. Geometry. 31. Cicero's Orations. 

7 



50 



REGULATIONS. 



[Chap. XIII. 



32. Composition of Latin Verses. 33. Composition in 
Fi-ench. 34. Ancient History and Geography. 
Text-books. Tlic following books of reference may be used in 

pursuing the above studies : 

Leverett's Latin Lexicon, or Gardner's Abridgment 
of the same. 

Andrews' Latin Lexicon. 

Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon, or Pickering's 
Greek Lexicon, last edition. 

Worcester's School Dictionary. 

Smith's Classical Dictionary. 

Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities. 

Baird's Classic Manual. Warren's Treatise on Pliys- 
• ical Geography, or Cartee's Physical Geography and 
Atlas is jjermitted to be used. 

Sect. 13. No Translations, nor any Interpretation, 
Keys, or Orders of Construction, are allowed in the 
school. 



Object of its 
establishment. 



Teachers. 



CHAPTER XIII 



Q \ 



Regulations of the English High School. 

Section 1. The English High School is established 
to provide those boys who have completed the course of 
study prescribed for the Grammar Schools with the op- 
portunity of pursuing more advanced studies, and of 
completing a thorough and liberal English education. 
The following are the special regulations for this school 
in addition to the General Regulations. 

Sect. 2. The teachers in this school shall be a Head 



Chap. XIII.] REGULATIONS. 51 

Master, three Masters, and as many Sub-Masters as 
shall allow one instructor to every thirty-five pupils, but 
the Standing Committee may appoint an additional Sub- 
Master whenever the number of pupils in excess of this 
limit shall in their judgment make it necessary. These 
teachers must have graduated from some respectable 
college, and must be competent to instruct in the French 
language. 

Sect. 3. Candidates for admission to this school ^^^"^5°'***°° °f 

^^ candidates for 

shall be examined on the Wednesday and Thursday admission, 
next succeeding the exhibition of the Grammar Schools 
in July ; they must be not less than twelve years of age, 
and be furnished with a certificate of character and 
qualifications from their previous instructor, and must 
pass a satisfactory examination in Spelling, Reading, 
Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Modern Geog- 
raphy, and the History of the United States. 

Sect. 4. It shall be the duty of the Standing Com- 
mittee to be present at the annual examination of candi- S'*™^- 
dates, which shall be conducted by the instructors, from 
questions previously prepared by them, and approved by 
the Committee. 

Sect. 5. When admitted, pupils shall be arranged 
in divisions according to their proficiency, and shall classification of 
be advanced according to their subsequent scholar- 
ship. 

Sect. 6. It shall be the duty of the Head Master to Examinations 
examine all the classes of the school as often as may be 
consistent with proper attention to those under his im- 
mediate instruction. Pupils shall be occasionally re- 
viewed in their studies, and once a quarter there shall 
be a general review of the previous studies of that 
quarter. 



52 



KEGULATIONS. 



[Chap. XIII. 



Course of 
Btudy. 



Diplomas to 
graduates. 



School hours. 



Course of 
studies and 
text-books. 



Same. 



Same. 



Sect. 7. The course of study shall be arranged for 
three years, and those who have completed it shall be 
regarded as graduates of the school ; but any pupil 
desiring to further pursue, his studies may have the 
privilege of remaining another year ; no pupil, however, 
shall remain in the school longer than four years. 

Sect. 8. Every pupil who shall graduate from this 
scliool, having honorably completed the course of in- 
struction to the satisfaction of the Committee and the 
Head Master, shall be entitled to receive a suitable 
diploma. 

Sect. 9. The school shall hold one session, daily, 
commencing at 9 A. M. and closing at 2 P. M., except 
on Saturday, when the school shall close at 1 o'clock. 

Sect. 10. The course of study and instruction in 
this school shall be as follows : 

Class 3. 1. Review of preparatory studies, using the 
text-books authorized in the Grammar Schools of the 
city. 2. Ancient Geography. 3. Worcester's Geneial 
History. 4. Sherwin's Algebra. 5. French Language. 
6. Drawing. 

Class 2. 1. Sherwin's Algebra, continued. 2. French 
Language, continued. 3. Drawing, continued. 4. Le- 
gendre's Geometery. 5. Book-keeping. 6. Blair's 
Rhetoric. 7. Constitution of the United States". 8. Trig- 
onometry, with its application to Surveying, Naviga- 
tion, Mensuration, Asironomical Calculations, etc. 9. 
Paley's Evidences of Christianity, — a Monday morning 
lesson. 

Class 1. TrigonoQietry, with its applications, etc., con- 
tinued. 2. Paley's Evidences continued, — a Monday 
morning lesson. 3. Drawing, continued. 4.- Astron- 
omy. 5. Natural Philosophy. 6. Moral Philosophy. 



Chap. XIV.] EEGULATIONS. 53 

7. Political Economy. 8. Natural Theology, 9. 
Shaw's Lectures on English Literature. 10. French, 
continued, — or the Spanish Language may be com- 
menced by such pupils as in the judgment of the master 
have acquired a competent knowledge of the French. 
Warren's Treatise on Physical Geography, or Cartee's 
Physical Geography and Atlas, ispermitted to be used . 

For the pupils who remain at the school the fourth 
year, the course of studies shall be as follows : — 

1. Astronomy. 2. Intellectual Philosophy. 3. Logic, same. 
4. Spanish. 5. Geology. 6. Chemistry. 7. Mechanics, 
Engineering and the higher Mathematics, with some option. 

Sect. 11. The several classes shall have regular speiimg, Read- 
exercises in English Composition and Declamation, In- ^ar to receive 
structors shall pay particular attention to the penman- p^^'"^^^^^'"'^*" 
ship of the pupils, and give such instruction in Spelling, 
Reading, and English Grammar, as they may deem 
necessary to make the pupils familiar with these funda- 
mental branches. 

Sect. 12. Instruction in Military Drill shall be instruction in 
given under the general supervision of the Committee 
on Vocal and Physical Culture, who are authorized to 
provide a suitable place and arms for drilling and to 
appoint a drill-master. The time occupied in drills 
shall not exceed two hours each week. 



CHAPTER XIV. ^, f ^ 

Regulations of the Girls^ High and Normal School. -'-u-^ u, ! '^S *T 



Section 1. The Girls' High and Normal School is object of the 
instituted to furnish those girls who have completed the ^'^ °° ' 
course of studies pursued at the Grammar Schools, with 



54 



REGULATIONS. 



[Chap. XIV. 



Instructors. 



Candidates how 
admitted. 



Examination, 
time of. 



Manner of 
examination. 



School hours. 



Visitations hy 
parents and 

friends. 



the opportunity for higher intellectual culture, by a thor- 
ough course of advanced study, and to qualify as teach- 
ers tiiose who desire to become such. The following 
are special regulations for this school, in addition to 
the General Regulations. 

Sect, 2. The instructors shall be a Head Master, a 
Head-Assistant, and as many Assistants as may be found 
necessary, provided that the number of assistants shall 
not exceed one for every thirty pupils, also a special 
teacher for each of the following studies, — French, 
German, Drawing and Music. 

Sect, 3, Candidates for admission must be not less 
than fifteen, nor more than nineteen years of age. They 
must present certificates of character and qualification, 
from the teacher whose school they last attended, and 
umst pass a satisfactory examination in Spelling, Read- 
ing, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, and History, 
which examination shall take place on the Wednesday 
and Thursday next succeeding the annual E'xhibition of 
the Grammar Schools, 

Sect, 4. The examination shall be conducted by 
the instructors of the school, orally and from written 
questions prepared by them, and approved by the Stand- 
ing Committee. It shall be the duty of the Committee 
to be present and to assist at the examination, and the 
admission of candidates shall be subject to their approval. 

Sect. 5. The sessions of the schools shall begin at 
9 o'clock, A. M. and close at 2 o'clock, p. m., except on 
Wednesday and Saturday, when they shall close at 1 
o'clock. 

Sect. 6. Instead of a public exhibition in this school, 
parents and friends shall be invited througli the pupils 
to attend the regular school exercises in the various 



Chap. XIV.] REGULATIONS. 55 

rooms during the five days preceding the last school- 
day of the school year. 

Sect. 7. The plan of study shall be arranged forPupUsmay 

T-, .1 , , T T (• 1 ' -I remain three 

three years. Pupils who have attended tor that period, years. 
and who have completed the course in a manner satis- 
factory to the Standing Committee and the teachers. . , 

•' ° ' Diploma. 

shall be entitled to receive a diploma when they graduate. 

Sect. 8. Those members of the Senior Class who Those of senior 

. -, . Class who in- 

mtend to become teachers, shall be required during tend to teach to 
four weeks of the year to attend the Grammar and ^^^ p^?^'^'*' 
Primary Schools of the city, that they may observe the schools. 
methods of teaching in these schools, and acquire a 
practical knowledge in regard to their instruction and 
government by acting as teachers, under the direction 
of the Chairman and Master of the District to which 
they may be sent. 

Sect. 9. There shall be connected with this school, Training De- 
under the immediate charge of a Superintendent and an 
Assistant, a separate department for the instruction and 
practice of the best methods of teaching, which shall 
be called the Training Department. 

Sect. 10. The course of studies and instruction in 
this school shall be as follows : 



JUNIOR CLASS. 

Review of the preparatory studies with special ref- 
erence to methods of teaching. 

Physical Geography; Geometry begun. 

Analysis of language and structure of sentences ; 
Synonymes. 

English Literature, comprising a careful examination 
of select authors, with exercises in criticism. 

Rhetoric and Exercises in Composition. 



56 EEGULATIONS. [Chap. XIV. 

American History ; History of Modern Europe begun. 

Vocal Music ; Vocal Gymnastics and Pkysical Exer- 
cises; Drawing. 

Elective Studies. 

German, (instruction given by a native German,) and 
Latin begun. 

MIDDLE CLASS. 

Geology, begun ; Natural Philosophy. 

Book-keeping; Algebra, begun. 

Geometry, continued ; English Literature, continued. 

Exercises in Composition, continued. 

German and Latin, continued. 

French, begun (instructions given by a native French 
teacher). 

History of Modern Europe, continued. 

Drawing, Vocal Music, Vocal Gymnastics and Physi- 
cal Exercises, continued. 

SENIOR CLASS. 

Geology, continued ; Botany. 

Chemistry and Physiology, by lectures. 

Astronomy ; Algebra, continued. 

Trignometry; English Literature. 

German, Latin and French, continued. 

Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. 

Ancient History; Writing with special reference to 
teaching. 

Drawing, Vocal Music, Vocal Gymnas'iics and Physi- 
cal Exercises, continued. 

Instruction in the Theory and Practice of Teaching. 

Blxercises in Composition, continued. 

Such instruction in Music shall be given to all the 
pupils as may qualify them to teach vocal music in the 
Public Schools. 



BOUNDARIES 



GRAMMAR SCHOOL SECTIONS. 



Adams School, for Boys and Girls. 

Comprises that portion o-f East Boston lying south and east 
of a line running from the Bay on the east, through Porter 
Street to the railroad; thence along the railroad to Decatur 
Street, through Decatur to Chelsea Street, through Chelsea to 
Elbow Street, through Elbow to Meridian Street, through Merid- 
ian to Maverick Street, through Maverick to Havre Street, 
through Havre Street to the water. 

Bigeloiv School, for Boys and Girls. 

Comprises all that part of South Boston lying between the 
sections of the Lawrence and the Lincoln School. 

Bowditch School Section, for Girls. 

Commencing at the water at the foot of State Street ; thence 
by the centre of State to Devonshire Street; thence by the 
centres of Devonshire, Otis, and Kingston streets to Albany 
Street, to where the latter is crossed by the Boston and Worces- 
ter Railroad ; thence by the railroad to the water ; thence by 
the water to the point of beginning. 
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58 BOUNDARIES. 

Bowdoin School Section, for Girls. 

Commencing at Cambridge Bridge ; thence by the centre of 
Cambridge Street to North Russell Street ; thence through the 
centre of North Russell to Eaton Street ; thence through the 
centre of Eaton to Chambers Street; thence through the centre of 
Chambers to Green Street ; thence through the centre of Green to 
Leverett Street ; thence through the centre of Leverett to Cause- 
way Street ; thence through the centre of Causeway Street to the 
Boston and Maine Railroad ; thence by said railroad to Haymarket 
Square ; thence through the centre of Haymarket Square to Union 
Street; thence by the centre of Union Street to Dock Square; 
thence by Dock Square to Washington Street; thence by the 
centre of Washington to Court Street; thence by the centre of 
Court to Tremont Street ; thence by the centre of Tremont to 
Beacon Street; thence by the centre of Beacon to Otter Street; 
thence by the centre of Otter Street to the water ; thence by the 
water to the point of beginning. 

Boylston School Section, for Boys. 

Commencing at the water at the foot of State Street ; thence 
by the centre of State to Devonshire Street ; thence by the cen- 
tres of Devonshire, Otis and Summer streets to the water; 
thence by the water to the point of beginning. 

Brimmer School Section., for Boys. 

Beginning at the water at the foot of Otter Street ; thence by 
the centre of Otter to Beacon Street; thence by the centre of 
Beacon to Tremont Street; thence by the centre of Tremont to 
Court Street; thence by the centre of Court to State Street; 
thence by the centre of State to Devonshire Street ; thence by 
the centres of Devonshire, Otis, Kingston and Albany streets to 
Harvard Street; thence by the centre of Harvard to Tyler 



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Street ; thence by the centre of Tyler Street, prolonged, to the 
Boston and Worcester Railroad; thence by the railroad to 
Dartmouth Street; thence by the centre of Dartmouth Street to 
the water; thence by the water to the point of beginning. 

Chapman School, for Boys and Girls. 

Commencing at the Mystic River, and running easterly 
through Central Square and Porter Street to Chelsea Street, 
through the centre of Chelsea Street to Marion Street, through 
tlie centre of Marion Street to a line midway between Princeton 
and Lexington streets, by said line easterly to Brooks Street, 
through the centre of Brooks Street to Chelsea Creek, and 
thence by the water to the bound first named. 

Dwight School, for Boys. 
Includes all of Boston south of the centre of Dedham Street. 

Eliot School, for Boys. 

Beginning at the water at the foot of Richmond Street; thence 
through the centre of Richmond to Salem Street; thence by the 
centre of Salem to Cooper Street ; thence by the centre of Cooper 
to Beverly Street ; thence by the centre of Beverly, and in the 
same direction with Beverly Street, to the water ; thence by the 
water to the point begun at. 

Everett School, for Girls. 
Includes all of Boston south of the centre of Dedham Street. 

Franklin School, for Girls. 

Includes all that portion of Boston which lies between the 
centre of Dedham Street on the South, and the Worcester Rail- 



60 BOUNDARIES. 

road and a line drawn from its junction with Albany Street to 
the water on the North. 

Hancock School Section, for Girls. 

Commencing on the Maine Railroad at the water ; thence by 
the railroad to Haymarket Square ; thence through Haymarket 
Square to Union Street; thence through the centre of Union 
Street to Dock Square, through Dock Square to Washington 
Street; thence through Washington Street to State Street; 
thence through State Street to the water ; thence by the water 
to the Maine Railroad. 

Lawrence School for Boys and Girls. 

Comprises all that part of South Boston west and northwest 
of D Street. 

Lincoln School, for Boys and Girls. 

Includes all that part of South Boston east of Old Harbor 
Street and of a line running through the centre of Fifth and F 
streets to the shore of Boston Harbor. 

Lyman School, for Boys and Girls. 

Commencing at the Mystic River and running easterly through 
Central Square and Porter Street to the railroad; thence along 
the railroad through Decatur, Chelsea, Elbow, Meridian, Mav- 
erick, and Havre streets to the water ; thence by the water to 
the bound first named. 

Mayhew School Section, for Boys. 

Commencing at the foot of Leverett Street at Cragie's Bridge , 
thence through the centre of Leverett to Green Street ; thence 



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through the centre of Green to Chambers Street ; thence by the 
centre of Chambers, across Cambridge Street to Joy Street; 
through the centre of Joy, to Beacon Street; through the centres 
of Beacon, Tremont and Court streets, to State Street ; thence by 
the centre of State Street to the water ; thence by the water to the 
foot of Richmond Street ; thence by the centre of Richmond to 
Salem Street ; thence by the centre of Salem to Cooper Street ; 
thence by the centre of Cooper to Beverly Street; thence by the 
centre and continuation of Beverly Street to the water ; thence 
by the water to the point of beginning. 

Phillips School Section, for Boys. 

Commencing at Otter Street on the Mill-dam ; thence by the 
centre of Otter to Beacon Street ; thence by the centre of Bea- 
con to Joy Street; thence by the centre of Joy, across Cam- 
bridge Street, to Chambers Street; through the centre of 
Chambers to G-reen Street; thence by the centre of G-reen 
to Leverett Street; thence by the centre of Leverett Street 
to the water; thence by the water to the point of beginning. 

Frescott School, for Boys and Girls. 

Comprises all that portion of East Boston lying easterly of a 
line commencing at Chelsea Creek, and running through the 
centre of Brooks Street to a line midway between Princeton 
and Lexington streets; thence by said line to Marion Street, 
through the centre of Marion to Chelsea Street, through the cen- 
tre of Chelsea Street to Porter Street, and through the centre 
of Porter Street to the shore of Boston Harbor. 

Quincy School Section, for Boys. 

Commencing at the water at Dover Street Bridge, at its junction 
with the extension of Albany Street ; thence by the centre of 



62 BOUNDAEIES. 

Dover Street to Harrison Avenue ; thence by the centre of Harri- 
son Avenue to the Boston and Worcester Railroad ; thence by 
the railroad to Tyler Street, prolonfcd ; thence by the centre of 
Tyler to Harvard Street ; thence by the centre of Harvard to 
Albany Street; thence by the centre of Albany to Kingston 
Street; thence by the centre of Kingston to Summer Street; 
thence by the centre of Summer Street to the water; thence by 
the water to the point of beginning. 

Rice School Section, for Boys. 

Commencing at the water at the foot of Dedham Street ; thence 
by the centres of Dedham and Dartmouth streets to the Boston 
and Worcester Railroad ; thence by the centre of the railroad to 
Harrison Avenue ; thence by the centre of Harrison Avenue to 
Dover Street; thence by the centre of Dover Street to Albany 
Street, continued; thence by the water to the point of beginning. 

M^ells School, for Girls. 

Commencing at the water on the easterly end of Cambridge 
Bridge ; thence by the water to the Boston and Maine Railroad, 
thence by said raih-oad to Causeway Street ; thence by the centre 
of Causeway to Prospect Street; thence by the centre of Pros- 
pect Street to Lyman Place; thence by the centre of Lyman 
Place to Green Street ; thence across Green and through the 
centre of Staniford to Cambridge Street; thence by the centre of 
Cambridge Street to the bound first named. 

Winthrop School Section, for Girls. 

Beginning at the water at the foot of Otter Street; thence by 
the centre of Otter to Beacon Street; thence by the centre of 
Beacon to Tretnont Street ; thence by the centre of Tremont to 
Court Street; thence by the centre of Court to State Street; 



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thence by the centre of State to Devonshire Street ; thence by 
the centres of Devonshire, Otis, Kingston and Albany streets, to 
where the latter is crossed by the Boston and Worcester Eail- 
road; thence by the railroad to Dartmouth Street; thence by the 
centre of Dartmouth Street to the water j thence by the water to 
the point of beginning. 



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